Rick Wiggins wrote:
> All,
>
> I tried using Acroread on my FreeBSD system (using Linux compatibility mode
> since Acroread isn't available for FreeBSD), but wasn't having any luck. I
> found the 'xpdf' program available at http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ which
> comes with a 'pdftops' utility program. To use this program, I had to
> modify 'htdig' so that it wouldn't include the '-toPostScript' command
> option and would completely specify the output filename, like this:
>
> # diff PDF.cc.orig PDF.cc
> 149c149
> < acroread << " -toPostScript " << pdfName << " " << tmpdir << " 2>&1";
> ---
> > acroread << " " << pdfName << " " << psName << " 2>&1";
>
> Perhaps future versions of 'htdig' can generalize the 'pdf_parser'
> attribute such that this modification would not be necessary when using
> programs other than Acroread. Just a thought...
Probably better to inglobe the xpdf code directly in htdig code!
Ciao
Fabrizio
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